The Thing about Miserable is everyone has temps they like and it is also (can't remember the word that isn't good so I'll say it in an odd way) from your perspective point (There it is Relative)... So that day was a crappy day but if you where in the Middle of Winter it would be considered a warm day.... But since we just left some warm weather it becomes miserable....

Now forgetting about temp for a minute you can have a dry sunny cold day where you feel comfortable even though it is colder... That bright sun and nice sky and no chilly wind and bright as opposed to looking like the gates of hell are about to open is a factor in miserable ........

tinypliny writes
at 11:36:59 10/01/11 - Comment #65313

Share! Share! Share!

uncutsaniflush writes
at 11:27:02 10/01/11 - Comment #65312

As always oh tiny scientist, who am I to disagree with you. But dopey old me doesn't consider 8 degrees Centigrade to be "semi-freezing" I think that "semi-freezing is around .5 plus or minus C degrees.

I'm sorry that you had a miserable time. I wrote a song once about my "New Miserable Time". Maybe I should share it with the world. Or not. Because I'm too miserable.

tinypliny writes
at 11:03:27 10/01/11 - Comment #65311

heh, take any day with overcast skies, semi-freezing temperatures, unresolved conflicts and that is a recipe for miserable. Viewed by someone whose cold just won't leave, it is bonafide miserable.

uncutsaniflush writes
at 10:55:27 10/01/11 - Comment #65310

Perspective is a funny thing. I didn't get that the day was miserable from the photos at all. But I am a pollyanna so what do I know? Speaking of illin', the pundits say that George Orwell wouldn't have written "1984" if he wasn't sick at the time. I'm just saying.

The cardboard that is. I seriosuly canno believe the way people pack stuff. I thought I was getting my new external hard drive in the box and I still thought the box was big. Then it turned out to only be the 2ft firewire 800 cable. Seriously, such a giant box, stuffed with paper for this tiny, indesctructible, no moving parts firewire cable.

If I don't take the box home it will all go in the trash (e:paul,45618)

We all had the same issue when we ordered those flat imac keyboard, they weigh nothing and are tiny but came in boxes twice the size of this box with another box inside, stuffed with those styrofoam peanuts.

You'd enjoy consumerist.com. they have a whole section of ridic packing and companies that are guilty of it.

dcoffee writes
at 09:31:55 09/10/08 - Comment #38783

terrible.

tinypliny writes
at 08:02:15 09/10/08 - Comment #38764

Gee. That IS bad. The evil is being propagated both ways. By Amazon/Buy.com/whatever online sending their meaningless humongous boxes and by Roswell so blatantly and lazily refusing to recyle.

(e:Paul), the "an-accusing-photo-a-day" is a good idea. We would probably need to label all the posts "Roswell Park Cancer Institute" to make it even more targeted and effective. I think there is a city called Roswell somewhere in the US (and aliens landed there, according to myth/reality leaks).

Here we have another peek into the garbage dumpster at 901 Washington at Roswell. I seriously can't believe how much cardboard they put in the garbage, it's disgusting. There was a bunch more inside waiting to be broken down. This is just an update to (e:paul,45562)

I was noticing how many disposable coffee cups folks are using in my classes - prolly 60% of the 85 people - how hard is it to keep a travel coffee mug handy? <rolling eyes>

tinypliny writes
at 03:27:18 09/10/08 - Comment #38728

And yeah, bring your own GODDAMNED COFFEE MUGS instead of taking a new plastic cup at the water cooler or the coffee machine everytime! I have said this so many times to so many people and even have a collection of salvaged real ceramic mugs that people can wash and take. But no. They never do. They throw a minimum of two or three big styrofoam and plastic cups into their trash everyday. I am finding it really hard to keep being cordial with these garbage generating non-recycling careless nutjobs. :(

tinypliny writes
at 03:19:30 09/10/08 - Comment #38727

They took away no less than 25 boxes from my department floor today (I counted). My department also has 80% paper in all the garbage collected daily. I seriously am tired of picking up paper from everyone's garbage and putting them in the blue recycle bins. I really don't care that people view me as loony to go garbage dipping but it stresses me out that while I am clearing the garbage bins in my office (of 9 people) and the post-doc office (of 5 people) of paper, there are other offices that just don't care and dump all their paper in garbage. I think its not right to blame Roswell completely in this sort of behaviour. ALL EMPLOYEES MUST GO THROUGH RECYCLING EDUCATION PROGRAMS! The first commandment should be YOU MUST NOT DROP PRINT QUALITY PAPER IN GARBAGE. Take the time to move your fat sedentary being to one of the recycling bins hardly 20 feet off!

Is what I hear everytime I look in the dumpster at Roswell Park Cancer
Institute's IT building. The official reason they told me why they
throw out so much cardboard,"they don't have a truck to bring it
somewhere for recycling. "

It so irresponsible. I say hire a service. I hate it when the
cleaning lady asks if she can breakdown my cardboard and throw it
out. I take it home and recycle it.

If you want to get the word out more, you can always post something on WNYmedia.net :::link::: they have good Alexa ratings and a lot of local viewers, anyone can post, and it could get picked up by local media. I agree with you, that's really bad. Changing the behavior of an institution like this is huge, it would eliminate a lot of waste. Finally my college SUNY Fredonia started a recycling program.

libertad writes
at 01:51:41 09/04/08 - Comment #38560

So innaporpriate for me to be viewing at my desk! Seriously, I am put off that they made no response to our suggestions for the cafeteria. You should make a suggestion too since they ignored me and tinypliny.

heidi writes
at 01:27:10 09/04/08 - Comment #38558

Where does the computer/electronics waste go? If they order 150-ish computers a week, there's a LOT of stuff being replaced...

tinypliny writes
at 11:36:13 09/04/08 - Comment #38550

oops, didn't meant to post that empty. An IT person told me that they order 150 PC/Comp units every week and I suppose all the cardboard packaging is thrown away. :/ That is environmental homicide.

tinypliny writes
at 11:34:38 09/04/08 - Comment #38549

tinypliny writes
at 11:33:46 09/04/08 - Comment #38548

I feel SO STRONGLY about all this non-recycling havoc that A CANCER CARE institute is wrecking on WNY. I think we should start a site called "Roswell DOES NOT Recycle" and post pictures of wanton non-recycling behaviour on it, daily. Since Roswell cares so much about its image, people would be forced to sit up and take notice. I am sick of writing letters to random people in authority every month. In response to (e:libertad)'s cafeteria call to action, I wrote a well-reasoned (I think) long letter to the comments box, and signed it so they would send me a response. But they never bothered!

At Roswell Park's IT building where I work they have laid down wood
styled mulch made of recycled tires. Sounds green but really it
smells toxic like rubber and doesn't the nastiness leach into the
ground. (e:enknot) said that it is used around the electric box to
prevent shocks, is that the case?

Either way who ever invented it is brilliant. Dumping rubber is
illegal in most places and it is expensive to dispose of. Now some
company has convinced people to buy the old tires and dump it all over
their own properties.

That is so hard to believe. I mean pumping billions of gallons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere can't hurt right? It's just those crazy left wing, nut job scientists trying to ruin business for the good companies of america, right?

According to time.com

According to drafts and participants, the document says it is "very likely" - which means at least 90% certain - that climate change is caused by humans burning fossil fuels, and will result in a temperature increase of between 2.5 and 10.4 Fahrenheit by the year 2100.

Some participants apparently want to change that wording to "virtually certain," which connotes a 99% likelihood. "People seem to be feeling, let's make sure that the text actually means something and makes sense to the people it's intended for," Catherine Pearce of Friends of the Earth, who is observing the talks, said Wednesday night. "Some are saying there's no point in having texts that ... don't say anything, that are so watered down," she said.

On a side note I think it is ridiculous that the French turned off the Eifel tower lights for five minutes to call attention to energy conservation. I think it is way past the time when symbolic gesture liek that even matter. Five minutes, couldn't it at least have been an hour, a day or a week. Five minutes almost seems like a joke. Okay, now back to the story.

Sir Nicholas Stern, author of a major report on the economic impact of global warming, says the latest review of the scientific evidence by United Nations' experts has demolished the chief argument of so-called climate sceptics. . . You can read the whole article here .http://www.smh.com.au/news/environment/we've-wrecked-the-weather/2007/02/03/1169919583022.html

At this point a huge majority of the worlds climate scientists agree. Humans are greatly accelerating global warming and unfortunately, we are waiting too long to really do much about it. In fact they stated, "Global warming is "unequivocal" and "very likely" - to a 90 percent or more certainty - caused by human activity. "

I tend to believe them. I grabbed this data from an article about the summit

According to an article,

The United States emits the most greenhouse gases of any country - more than 6.5 billion tons per year, or about 22 percent of the world's total. But it will be surpassed in coming decades by fast-growing China, which is now building on average one coal power plant per week. India isn't far behind; like China, its population has surpassed 1 billion and keeps rising at a fast clip.

The scientists suggest the US develop environmentally energy production methods as soon as possible and share those technologies with developing nations. I would liek to see something along the lines of Open Source energy production technologies but you know it will most likely not be like that and devloping nations will not be able to afford the technology resulting in more coal burnig power plants.

FInding in the reportThe cause
Global warming is "unequivocal" and "very likely" - to a 90 percent or more certainty - caused by human activity. Fossil fuel consumption has generated much of the global rise in temperatures over the past half-century.

Temperature changes
Average global temperatures could increase by 2 to 11.5 degrees Fahrenheit by 2100. By comparison, temperatures have risen 1.5 degrees over the past century.

Sea levels
Ocean levels are projected to rise 7 to 23 inches by 2100, and will continue to rise for 1,000 years or more. Projections do not include contributions from melting polar ice.

Water shortages
Heat waves, droughts and other kinds of extreme weather will become more frequent. In California, warmer weather will shrink spring snowpacks in the Sierra, reducing a major source of water in the summer and fall.

We should start making making greenhouse gas emission laws stricter. Liek who the fuck needs an escalade. Maybe we should just illegalize huge SUVs, non-energy efficient light bulbs, and promote forms of cleaners energy. It seems to me like cars must be a huge part of it. All it takes is one visit to LA to see what cars do to the atmosphere.

Imagine how much worse it will get when everywhere is as capable of being as wasteful as we are.

Many people say that the transition to cleaner technologies will be bad for business. Whose business? Think of all the new, high-paying, highly-skilled positions that will be needed for R&D, conversion, and training - not to mention the workforce required for all the new manufacturing and specialized disposal that will be needed. It will be a huge economic boon and competative advantage to anyone who takes the initiative, and I believe it will likewise be economically devastating to those who drag their feet. The oil companies may not like this, but this doesn't have to destroy their business either. They place all these ads about how they're researching alternative fuels - now is the perfect time for them to reinvest their unusually high profits in all this research they say their doing, so that they can be the first to market, buck obsolescence, and stop spending so much money influencing government - because they won't care anymore.

That doesn't even mention moral necessity, because I don't think it has to. This is a huge business opportunity for anyone who sees it, regardless of whether they care about the Greater Good, or even if they still think global warming is hogwash. Money talks and I am telling you that environmental engineering is where the smart money is at.